generally regarded (by myself among others) as certain to be damned eternally, notwithstanding their good behavior during their life here.

"But the day is advancing, and we should be going up to my house the same, only made over, which Gulliver shared."

The way led through a park-like country with short vistas, along a well-beaten road, in a turn of which they came upon an enclosure of perhaps three acres, where were grazing, or running at large, the tiniest horses ever seen by the eye of man. They had the size of a fox, but were too far off to reveal their digits.

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Behold," said the dapple-gray to Theophilus, whose conjecture had outstripped the announcement, "the degraded travesty of the Houyhnhnm!"

He would have passed on, but Brocklebank entreated him to stay for a nearer view of these extraordinary creatures. The beast good-naturedly complied, and of his native courtesy summoned help to drive the little troop towards the nearest portion of the field. Upon this appeared a number of Yahoos wanting little of the odious aspect ascribed to them by Gulliver, and proving that the race had not been exterminated. They had, the dapple-gray explained, been spared for their aid in driving off not only the four-toed invaders, but a later and more annoying (because tree-climbing) set of invaders of their own

kind, though smaller and having tails, and whose very likeness made them (so it seemed to the lords of the island) more hateful to the Yahoos.

The keepers of the herd had no difficulty in bringing them to the paling, and Theophilus viewed with strange emotions what Darwin would have called a "living fossil," that had endured so long "from having inhabited a confined area, and from having been exposed to less varied, and therefore less severe, competition." He had no doubt that he saw in the flesh and in active motion that very Orohippus major (Marsh) whose bones, entombed in the Eocene formation of Wyoming, he had with his own hands disengaged to be shipped to New Haven. There were the four toes before and the three behind, and there were the large canine teeth, indicating that the mouth still remained the animal's chief defence for want of the vigorous single-toed hoof of Equus. Theophilus explained to his guide, as well as he could, the strange circumstance, and was no less surprised than delighted when told that some carcases, having escaped detection for burial, had been picked clean by rodents and insects, and the skeletons thus prepared had been saved in a museum not far off.

In fact, the building which answered to this name contained not only the skeletons in question, but (such had been the growth of curiosity since Gulliver's day among the Houyhnhnms) of asses, cows,

and even some of the Houyhnhnms themselves, and, along with skeletons of the monkey incursionists, others of the Yahoos. He therefore examined with much interest the bones of Orohippus, when his quick eye detected a rudimentary fifth toe that he had overlooked in the living animal, and, pointing it out to his guide, he held up his five fingers to suggest the parallelism. Such a genus had not been unearthed in America, and he was charmed with the thought that he might some day connect his name with it, little dreaming that, at that very moment, Huxley was predicting to a New York audience its ultimate discovery (in his last lecture on "The Direct Evidence of Evolution"), and that Professor Marsh would promptly bring to light from the lowest Eocene deposits his five-toed Eohippus.

"I see," said Theophilus to his equine friend, "that the resemblance of your own bodies to those of your little enemy has not escaped the notice of your savants who have mounted these bones here. Still more would it strike could see, as I you if you have seen in my country, a row of skeletons beginning with four toes and ending with Houyhnhnms, and passing through all the intervening sizes. From that we make bold to say that the one-toed is derived from the four-toed (or, as I now perceive, from the five-toed)."

"The absurdity is worthy of a Yahoo," said the

dapple-gray with some irritation, "and it would not be prudent to mention such an idea to anybody but myself. This foreign race has neither mind nor reason; has at most a blind instinct like that of rats, rabbits, or our Yahoos."

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'But," said Theophilus, "looking at the series grading off into each other, it is hard to believe that there is any essential difference among them, and my countrymen do in fact connect them together, while acknowledging the Houyhnhnms to be much the most advanced and noble creation. We put it in this way we ask ourselves, Would the inhabitants of another world, entering our museums and studying these skeletons, suspect any difference-I do not say in mind or reason, but in community of origin ?"

"Perhaps not," answered the dapple-gray, “but this would only prove how little such rubbish has to tell. Can these five-toed dwarfs build houses, cultivate the soil, make vessels of clay, compose poetry, or calculate eclipses? Judge, then, how impassable is the gulf between us. Greater than all distinctions, however, as great as between you Gullivers and our Yahoos, is the destiny assigned to each, proving that we are separate creations, with no other than an accidental outward resemblance. For who can believe that these brutes are to live hereafter, or, more ridiculous still, that they are damnable by the Supreme Houyhnhnm ?”

Theophilus felt that the debate was approaching dangerous ground. Still,

"How can you be so sure of that?" he inquired. "Because salvation and damnation are reserved for creatures possessing a moral sense.'

"But is the moral sense lacking in such as live peaceably among themselves, albeit without arts and the higher knowledge? Do not even your Yahoos obey you, as your servant class does, and is there not something of morality in their subordination, however much inspired by fear?"

"You waste your breath," said the steed; "there can be no moral sense without language. But for that, you Gullivers would have remained simple Yahoos.".

“I am glad,” remarked Theophilus with a smile, "that you leave us some hope of a future existence."

“I am not certain as to that : it is a question which I do not recall ever having heard debated. But of one thing I am positive, that you are, and (if you live again) will be, held accountable for your misdeeds, whereas it would be the height of the ridiculous thus to hold our Yahoos, who simply act out their own imperfect natures."

"Your perfection, suffer me to say, seems to me to hang upon a very slender difference between yourselves and your five-toed enemies, who, if they cannot converse among themselves, have yet a voice,